Refurbished Guild S100

[Aristophis]

I bought this 1973 Guild S100 at a yard sale for $50. It was completely naked, but cam with tuners, a pick guard, strap buttons, the tailpiece, the nut, and the back plate. I got a bridge for it from Hans, and it played really well. Since it was solid mahogany with a glue on neck I was stoked. I put a satin finish on the guitar and put in some vintage over-wound Seymour-Duncan pickups. drilled two extra holes for additional volume controls and wired it like a les paul, except that I put a coil tap on the bridge pickup. I couldn't be happier with this guitar. It plays great and sounds amazing!!! Thanks to Hans for finding me a bridge and making this all possible! I can't figure out how to post images, otherwise I would post one for you.

 

[Aristophis]

Oops! May have put this in the wrong thread! If so feel free to move me.

 

[Maxer]

You absolutely need to post some pics. I want to see this puppy.

 

[coastie99]

Aristophis..... you have a private message.

 

[Hammer]

Nice find and can't beat the price, but if it's the one in your avatar, I believe it's an S-90. Granted I'm no expert, but the lack of binding, purty inlays, the large pickguard and the original vol/tone setup all scream S-90 to me. Regardless...more pictures!

To post images, upload them somewhere like http://www.photobucket.com then make a new post, click the Img button at the top and paste the URL to the picture.

 

[Singin' Dave]

50 clams is a steal! Does sound like a S-90. Please use PhotoBucket and post some pix!

 

[Aristophis]

Thanks to Coastie99 for showing me how to do this!!

 

[Aristophis]

Re:Sorry for the bad quality

 

[Aristophis]

S/N

 

[Aristophis]

closeup of body

 

[Aristophis]

full guitar

 

[Singin' Dave]

Model number aside - looks like a very cool guitar! Enjoy!

 

[danerectal]

Sweetness. If you want a gold trapezoid tailpiece to match, I have one to trade. I bet she plays like a dream. Mine sure does.

 

[coastie99]

Nice A....... shame about the truss rod cover though !!

 

[Aristophis]

Yeah, but you know it plays and sounds fantastic. And when it really comes down to it, that's all I care about. I really lucked out here. Some of my friends who play Gibson Guitars were really skeptical of this whole project, but when they played this baby they agreed that it is a great instrument. Thanks for the offer of the gold tale piece. I would really like to get a chrome bridge however. I plan on putting another chrome pickup cover on that other Duncan at some point, I just need to figure out how to clean it and put the new cover on.
That brings up another interesting point. That bridge Duncan was on another guitar that I own, an Ibanez. When I put it into this Guild, I couldn't believe how much better it sounded. More sustain, and an all around fuller sound with screaming highs, punching mids, and warm tone. It must be that sweet old 1973 Mahogany. In fairness though, I'm not sure what kind of cap was in that Ibanez and I have 500k pots in this Guild, so that makes some difference. Thanks to all for your excellent feedback and help with the pictures.

 

[Ross]

Is the body a single piece of mahogany? I can't quite see whether it is from the photos.

Nice guitar!

R

 

[Aristophis]

Yes it is one piece. There is no seam. I can't remember if that is good or bad though. Seems like its better if its two because there is less warping, although if any warping had occurred I'm sure it would have already. Thanks!

 

[danerectal]

I prefer the one piece in the name of sustain. It seems that seams disrupt the continuity of the vibrations.

 

[Maxer]

I'd love to believe that... and my S100 is probably the one of the most 'alive' guitars I own. But there are tons of LP types out there with one, two and even three-piece mahogany bodies plus maple caps and they don't seem to run into problems generating gigantic sustain. I'm guessing much has to do with the nature of how woods are matched (and their orientation relative to one another)... adjacent-cut pieces with closely-matched grains would probably do a better job of conducting vibration, whereas blocks of wood arranged jigsaw-style might not work so well.

I dunno - ain't no wood specialist. Just fun to speculate.

 

[danerectal]

Maxer-
I think a lot of that sustain probably comes from the matched maple tops; though, like you, I'm no expert. Kind of fun to speculate.